The way our environment looks, the appearance of everything from housing estates to newspapers, is partly the result of a school of art and design founded in Germany in 1919 and closed down by the Nazis in 1933. This was the Bauhaus, which has left an indelible mark on art education throughout the world.

Setting everything against a backdrop of the times, Frank Whitford traces the ideas behind its conception and describes its teaching methods. He examines the activities of the teachers – artists as eminent as Paul Klee and Kandinsky – and the daily lives of the students. Everything is described with the aid, wherever possible, of the words of those who were there at the time.

我们所处的环境的样子，从住宅区到报纸的一切的外观，有一部分出自于一所1919年成立，1933年被纳粹关闭的艺术和设计学院。它就是在世界的艺术教育留下了不可磨灭的印记的包豪斯学院。

Frank Whitford将一切都放在时代的背景下，追溯了包豪斯观念背后的思想，介绍了它的教学方法。他研究了教师们——像Paul Klee和Kandinsky一样杰出的艺术家们——的活动和学生们的日常生活。所有的一切都尽可能用当时的见证者们的话语来描述。